Tuesday, November 20, 2012

#Lowcarb Boredom - Meal Ideas - Catching Up

(REMINDER this blog will be moving at the first of the year to my new site: http://www.vitainvia.com/cheapneasy-lowcarb-living.html - please make a note of it.)

Actually there isn't much catching up to do! For a week we ate cabbage soup and yogurt, with an occasional popcorn snack. But we were gone quite a bit also, so ate at restaurants several times. But almost exclusively, it was cabbage soup and yogurt until yesterday's supper.

For supper I cut a couple of pork tenderloin slices into small bites and cooked them in a frying pan in olive oil. When they were done I removed them from the pan and added a chopped onion plus a package of drained/rinsed shiritaki "rice", and let them fry up together with a little salt. When the onion was browing I added about a pound of frozen veggie mix (yellow squash, zucchini, carrots, green beans, red peppers) and a can of drained sliced mushrooms, plus some ginger (powdered) and some balsamic vinegar. Once this was all cooked together I added the meat back in to heat. The whole meal cost about $4 and was plenty for both of us.

Today for lunch I made a breakfast casserole with eggs, bacon, cheeses, and finely diced bread (a couple of Maria's sub rolls I've been making) as a crust on the bottom. Very good.

In the fridge I have a bowl of dough for ricotta gnocchi's which I will make up for supper in a little while. I actually combined recipes, because I didn't want to make up hundreds of the little things and roll them in flour and then find room in the fridge for the platter...so I made up the dough, and will drop them into boiling salted water when it's time. I plan to serve them with a creamy florentine sauce and some roasted chicken leg quarters. Since this is the first time I've tried these, I will have to let you know how they turn out.

Now that the soup is gone (but we still have about a pint of yogurt left) I will have to start actually cooking again! :)

I used to use FitDay for the first 3 years or so after going low carb :).

Portion control isn't something I haven't really paid a whole lot of attention to, our bowls of popcorn, for example, are huge. I think it's probably the half-stick of butter I put on it that keeps it from doing any damage, only because whenever I eat loads of fat I don't get any of the signs of increased blood sugar. (I should note that I don't test it, but when it goes up I get logy and headachy and feel definitely "off")

I think if I were eating to lose weight I personally would be better off simply omitting carby foods than trying to keep my portions smaller. To me, none at all is a lot better than not enough :).

This isn't necessarily a place to learn everything you need to know about eating low carb, its health benefits, or how to do it - there are plenty of other places for that. But since I've been living Cheap'n'Easy Low Carb since April 3, 2004, I just want to share some of my inexpensive and simple recipes (often including the cost!), shopping tips, experiences, and the occasional link or opinion. Welcome! :)

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About Me

I am middle-aged Christian lady, living quietly with my husband, 3 dogs, a cat, 7 parrots (ok, maybe not so quietly ALL the time!) in northern lower Michigan. We shop, cook, and eat low carb, the subject of my CheapEasyLowCarb blog. MyNissenFundoplication blog has all of the posts, including diet/food, relating to my recent (12/1/10) surgery. And my NEW Vita In Via blog is about all things RV and travel, including planning our future on the road! Everything else (music, faith, Lewy Body Disease, shopping, fun stuff, serious stuff, etc.) is in ChiaChatter.